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Originally Posted by deadsimple
I've got a fast enough system with plenty of ram. But I do a bit of hardware/software development and not all of the drivers and software required for that is supported under Vista (examples: here, and here), so it's a complete show-stopper for me.
In fact Vista x64 requires mandatory signing of drivers, making it a problem for some open-source projects as many don't have the resources (financial or time) to jump through Microsoft's hoops to get digital signatures, even though their drivers are rock solid and work fine in Vista x64 in development/debug mode.
Call all of this the developer's fault, Microsoft's fault, whatever - it makes no difference to me who to blame as an end-user/developer. Bottom line is it prevents me from doing what I want to do (hardware/software development), so I stick to XP until the situation improves.
Simple as that 
Even though I haven't been a fan of a few of Microsoft's products, I think that's a bit of a negative and biased opinion considering the final version isn't out yet for people to judge. |
I can't recall MS ever releasing an OS that wasn't buggier than hell on release , the reason why I waited for XP Pro SP2 to make the jump from 98.
I see no reason to expect 7 to be any different to past releases , and I am certainly not interested in lining MS's and Gate's pockets or subsidizing them by a long shot.